Category: Health

The number of students registered with the McBurney Office who suffer from mental illness has skyrocketed since 2008.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health is working to find a solution to this shortage across the state and nation.

“Being a nurse, you kind of blow things off,” said Nelson. “Then I had my nurse friends feel this. They’re like, ’No, it could just be a muscle.’ So, I kind of blew it off.”

Loree Nelson, a nurse at UW Health, doesn’t look like a woman with breast cancer. Two years ago, she found a lump on her breast.

CHIPPEWA FALLS — Katelyn Kleutsch offered information, and then encouragement, as she spoke over the phone recently with a person attempting to understand how to better access the local health care system. The Wisconsin Partnership Program is mentioned.

Noted: The Milwaukee pilot — dubbed Healthy Worker, Healthy Wisconsin — is in its second year under a five-year grant from the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Medical Entomology department has created the Wisconsin Tick ID service to help residents determine of the species they found is associated with any diseases.

The people who take care of us when we’re ill may not be getting the care they need to do a good job, and some are sending a wake-up call.

Continued access to free menstrual products helps close the gap of unmet need, says Access to Reproductive Healthcare Initiative vice president.

Carbone Cancer Center reports positive outlook for Lutathera, says funding from patient advocacy groups was crucial.

“We need to understand those gaps in order to be able to present the whole story,” said Marjory Givens, an associate scientist at the University of Wisconsin’s County Health Rankings and Roadmaps Program. “Our intention is to call attention to the fact that not everyone has the opportunity to be healthy where they live, and that means having difficult conversations about segregation and structural inequities.”

Saving $400,000 through environmental initiatives.

Older adults living in rural communities will benefit from an expansion of health and wellness programs in UW-Madison’s School of Nursing.

Four criteria of assessment include LGBTQ Patient-Centered Care, LGBTQ Patient Services and Support, Employee Benefits and Policies, LGBTQ Patient and Community Engagement.

The program is operated by the university’s kinesiology department. Tim Gattenby, a faculty associate for the program, expanded it in 1986 to provide an inclusive, recreational exercise space for people of various abilities.

UHS is not perfect and has certainly not achieved total success with all mental health resources. But their ongoing efforts to update and improve their programs show commitment to UW students’ mental health.

Some Madison-area health care providers have committed to creating a more inclusive environment for their LGBTQ patients, who often experience health care disparities. Last week, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation named two area health care providers “Leaders in LGBTQ Healthcare Equality.”

University Health Services has hired a Mandarin-speaking mental health counselor in an effort to better relate to and serve international students on the UW-Madison campus.

UW Health’s telestroke program, involving nine community hospitals from central Wisconsin to northern Illinois, can help patients at those hospitals get treated with the clot-busting drug on site or transferred to UW Hospital for other care, including thrombectomies.

This report is a collaboration between the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School professor in bioethics Alta Charo discusses Meriter Hospital NICU allegations.

My friendly local pharmacy has started selling naloxone kits to the general public. They think everyone should have one. The idea is that you never know when you’re going to have someone overdose in your home.

Surgeons are teaming up with engineers to use 3D printed models of patients’ hearts to prepare for complicated pediatric heart surgeries.

University Health Services distributed a survey to 9,000 undergraduate and graduate students Monday in an effort to better understand the health behaviors of UW-Madison students.

The state of Wisconsin is facing a shortage of nurses due to an aging population, and the University of Wisconsin (UW) School of Nursing wants to help fill that gap with a new accelerated nursing program.

In an effort to raise awareness for campus contraception resources, University Health Services and a student organization are working together on a series of contraceptive workshops slated to take place next month.

At the University of Wisconsin- Madison School of Nursing, a new accelerated program was started to help end the nursing shortage.

UW Health is making history in the state this month opening the only clinic focused solely on lupus patients and addressing their needs.